AHh, guys, let's not get ahead of ourselves here. Contacting Suppliers for the Current Fleet of Army vehicles is at best going to get no response, or at worst, have somebody from higher up coming down on us. These vehicles for the most part are Current Service Vehicles, with many overseas still. They will still be on service for some time yet. So let's not get into hassling suppliers about these kind of things. More problematically, if they did give you any information, they would probably be in breech of their contracts for the supply of this equipment. And that is a pickly that we do not want anybody in.
In fact there is a whole minefield of problems should westart persuing suppliers to manufacturers doing work for defence, so I would like to say a big NO to this one please.
On a lighter note...Let's get the 4 different vehicles right.
RFSV: An unarmed vehicle designed for recon in the northern reaches of Australia. Built during the normal Perentie Production Run. 243 built, plus 20 FFR WW converted to RFSV.
SRV: Based on the RFSV originally, was developed as a weapons platform for deployments into warzones. Built under project Bushranger (later vehicles) and only 43 built. Most have been converted to SRV (SF). 12 RFSV's were converted to SRV, and then to SRV (SF) as well. THese 12 vehicles were re issued ARN's in the 203-xxx series. Before the SF vehicles were developed, there was a mission kit developed that allowed an alternative mounting of the spare wheels where the doors were, the space for a weapons commander, fittament of a wire cutter and elongated side tails to protect the body of the vehicle. Most of these features were retained for the SF variant. The gun ring on the SRV was only capable of fitting the Minimi or Mag58.
SRV Original Build
http://forums.3dtotal.com/showthread.php?t=77746SRV(SF): Had the above mentioned modifications, and a few more. The gun ring was able to take the 50 CAL QC mounted further forward, and lower than the one on the SRV. Photos with the LRPV's are SRV(SF) vehicles.
SRV SF With Mission Kit
LRPV. the 6x6 that we all know and love (who doesn't love a LRPV!!)
